Definition: Google News is a search engine for news stories. Search results give a summary of the news item, offer a link to similar items, and tell you how recently the linked story was updated. You can also use Alerts to tell you if future news items are created that fit your search criteria.
The Associated Press has been highly critical of services like Google News because they feel it unfairly benefits from the efforts of newspapers to provide quality content. However, Google actually purchases AP content and publishes the entire articles from Google's servers.
Google News is on the Web at news.google.com.
